St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-17
ROTUNDA RIFF-RAFF.
photographs and Conversations
Caught in the Hotels.

Johnny Ford stood behing the register
of the Merchants yesterday and shook
the hands of his friends who walked in
to size him up i'll his new position.
Johnny is one OF the most popular hotel
clerks i'll the city and has q wide ac-
quaintance with the nomadic public.
For the past two OF three months he
has been wandering around in the sun
light and fresh air until his cheeks are
AS brown as berry, and he wears grasp
in his right hand that resembles the
grip of Il blacksmith. Johnny has now
stood behind the register in every prom
inent hotel in the city-the Windsor,
Metropolitan, Ryan and Merchants, and
now fills the position held for several
years by Ehle Allen.
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y heavy Scrawl on the Merchants reg
lister yesterday signified that l.. &. John
Son, the OrdWay boomer, was in the
city, accompanied by his family. He is
bound for the lakes, where he will spend
a few days, and Mrs. johnson and the
children will go East for short visit
with friends. '.Ordway' said the re-
port that the Dakota wheat fields were
Suffering from drouth was wild talk.
There has been plenty of rain and the
promise for a heavy crop of all kinds of
cereals next fall is fiattering.
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J. F. Toombs came down from Graf
ton, Oak, yesterday, where he is prac-
ticing law and getting rich, if there is
any truth in general report. Several
years ago he went to Grafton and set
tied down when there was hardly more
than claim Shanty in the town, but he
had faith In the country, and, being
slayer from the word go, his fortunes
grew with the town, and he is now what
they call in that part of the country
pretty well fixed" He is a nephew of
the famous bob" Toombs, and pos
sesses many of the peculiar character
isticS of his noted uncle. He reports
things as being PRETTY lively in his
part of the country, and says the farmers
never felt better, especially the small
ones.
Levi Greer, for long time superin-
tendent of the Dakota division of the
Northern Pacific railroad, with head
similar position with the Fargo South
err road, was at the Merchants
yesterday. MIR. Greer says there never
has been year when there has been so
much railroad construction in Dakota
as this. Nearly every town of import
ance in the territory is booming, in an
ticipation of the arrival of u railroad
within the next three months. The great
aim is to get connection with the st.
Paul & Minneapolis so that the mer-
chants may get the benefit of the whole
sale market OF these towns. Mi. Green
says the boom is not so wild as the eX-
element in that country four years ago,
but property is going at its actual value.
Int ut nd limo Dnf Nffata
anced.
Joe Reynolds is at the Ryan. He is
the advance agent for Mrs. Langtry and
is as handsome as the woman he repre-
Sents, though of Il different type of
beauty. Besides being handsome, Joe
is generous, and always has a pocketful
of cigars for the boys. but he never
smokes himself, for he claims ithurts
his complexion; and he is SO tender
hearted that he cannot think of doing
anything that would hurt his complex
ion, without tears springing t0chiS eyes.
Yesterday Joe told the clerk that he was
going upstairs to take bath, and he
went. Three hours later, after half a
dozen people had called for him and he
had not shown up, the porter went
up to the bathroom and found the
door locked. The porter got Il STEP
ladder and climbed up. looked through
the transem; there joe lay in the bath
tub with his cheek pillowed on his hand,
fast asleep. The tub was full of water
that had got chilly during JoGs nap,
and when the porter woke him he
dragged himself out and got the servant
to rub him down with currycomb and
towels. When last heard of he was
taking ten-grain quinine capsules once
i'll five minutes to drive off the rteuma-
tism. The Langtry company will reach
here Sunday, the Jersey Lily coming in
her special car, which she will occupy
during her three nights engagement
here,